Hurricane season nearing a close

Thanks for logging into myfoxhurricane.com. I'm meteorologist Dave Osterberg and we're starting, of course, to wind things down here in the hurricane season. You know, typically in November. Once every couple of years, you may spin a quick storm up. And so far, it's been pretty quiet, of course, because of the El Nino. But when one or two storms do typically develop in November, a lot of times they come out of the Caribbean, right, where the water is still warm. It's pretty deep here. And then they just kind of flow to the north and the east. Every once in a while, you may get something in the Gulf. But again. It's usually pretty quiet in the month of November. Ten named storms, obviously a much below normal season, with the exception, of course, of Isaias, which, of course, made that landfall. But, you know. This was well predicted going back to the beginning of the hurricane season. And I think the update that my friends at Colorado State did, they had nine named storms. So we're kind of right in that little path. And I don't think much is going to happen over the next, you know, couple of weeks. Look at the wind shear, which is still ongoing. And now with that big old subtropical jet stream just anchored right over the Gulf, it kind of shuts that down for any tropical development. Things are quiet. Right here in the Caribbean and look at the very strong wind shear off the eastern seaboard and then all the way over off toward the coast of Africa. It's very hostile is what I'm trying to tell you. Now what's interesting is because we've had a relatively quiet season in the tropics, the water temperatures in the Caribbean and the main development region here in the Atlantic are actually up. So we've got some pretty warm water temperatures and we'll see how that plays into next year's hurricane season. But I think really for the next couple of weeks, not much is going to happen, folks, and it should probably be about the end of all of this. So no tropical storm formation is expected over the next seven days. And, of course, if something does, we will let you know. Thanks for tuning in and have a great weekend.